• Who Will Do The Need-Meeting?

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  Scripture:  Philippians 2:1-5

  Tags:  Church Body Of Christ

WHO WILL DO THE NEED-MEETING?

One preacher told of shopping at the supermarket when a lady came down the aisle heading straight for him. She screeched to a halt within a few feet of him, wagged her finger, and said, "I left your church. I left your church".

So I said, "Well, if it’s my church, I think that was a very wise decision. If it’s my church, I think I’m going to leave too."

She said, "Don’t you want to know why I left?"

I said, "No, not particularly, but I think I’m going to find out." And I was right.

She said, "You weren’t meeting my needs."

I answered, "I don’t ever recollect seeing you before, let alone talking to you, let alone knowing your needs. Did you ever tell anyone specifically what your needs were?"

She couldn’t recall that she had, so I raised another question.

"Can you tell me, if we have 5,000 people sitting in that church, ALL with your attitude, how is anyone’s needs are going to be met? If you reserve the right to have that attitude, then you must give everybody the freedom to have that attitude. And if everybody has that attitude, who on earth is going to do all the need-meeting?"

(From a sermon by Jeff Strite, Love Me Nots, 2/21/2011)